According to Reuters, Helaine was 27 years old when he started getting tattoos. At the time, he said he was teaching at a private school in London and experienced an "existential crisis" that ...

A heavily tattooed man claims he lost his teaching job at a kindergarten after dying his eyeballs black. Sylvain Helaine, 35, says a parent at the school in Paris complained his appearance gave ...

A schoolteacher whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black said he was prevented from teaching at a French kindergarten after ...

But the teacher, Sylvain Helaine, 35, still teaches children from the age of six up, and said that, after an initial shock when they see him for the first time, his pupils see past his appearance.